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...Chicago. For some 40 years, schoolboys have known him as co-editor of Moody & Lovett's A History of English Literature. The roll of his students who made the grade as professional writers reads like a partial Who's Who of U.S. authors. Some of them: John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Vardis Fisher, Harry Hansen, Helen Hull, Janet Planner...
Inside U.S.A. (suggested by John Gunther's book; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz; sketches by Arnold Auerbach, Moss Hart and Arnold B. Horwitt; produced by Mr. Schwartz) opened to splash notices and may well run for two years. All the same, some first-nighters found it the least enjoyable Bea Lillie show in a long time. Not that it is really bad or botched: it is all thoroughly professional. It is also thoroughly unoriginal and unexhilarating; it not only fails to shed light of its own, but even dims the cherished Lillie luster...
Despite its title, Inside U.S.A. gives little sense of satirizing the American scene, or of really exploring the U.S. with Gunther and camera. It is simply a revue which-in the program, at any rate-is attentive to geography. Where associations are virtually unavoidable-as of New Orleans with the Mardi Gras, New Mexico with the Indians, or Chicago with crime-they have not been avoided. Otherwise the actual locale is of little value or even validity: a county fair labeled Wisconsin, for example, smacks a lot more of Oklahoma...
University supporters of Justice William O. Douglas for President now number over 600 and more are singing up every day, Gunther K. Rosinus '49, newly elected head of the College Douglas group reports...
Gannon, whose burr-tight guarding of such high-scoring players as Tony Lavelli, was a feature of this year's season, was chosen on the first ballot. He succeeds George Hauptfuhrer who, along with letterman Bill Brady, Michael Fannier, and Gunther Rosinus, graduates this year...